Crisis Prevention in Emerging Markets

IMF-Singapore Government High level seminar
Singapore, July 10–11, 2006

In the run up to the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings in September 2006, the IMF and the Singapore Government have organized a high-level seminar on Crisis Prevention in Emerging Market Economies on July 10-11, 2006 in Singapore. The seminar will bring together economists and policymakers from around the world to i) distill the lessons learned from recent crises; ii) discuss the problems created by open capital accounts for macroeconomic and financial policymaking; iii) analyze the issues raised by sovereign self-insurance, regional reserve pooling arrangements, and preemptive financing for countries; and iv) explore the challenges ahead for crisis prevention.